Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 59.6: Tiptoe is older than 99% of UK towns
Households with dependent children make up 17%, against 29% across England’s towns. 460 residents in 208 households: that is Tiptoe at the 2021 Census. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 1.9%. Lower than in 98% of UK towns: 5.8% of households have no car or van.
Residents aged 65 and over: 37%, a higher share than 98% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students make up 2.7% in Tiptoe, less than in 99% of UK towns
What adults did at the 2021 Census (the ONS’s NS-SEC classes), and where residents lived a year earlier.
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Address a year before the Census
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Here nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 24% of households in Tiptoe are one person living alone
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Hampshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. By contrast, at 2.9%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is higher than in 73% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Households in detached houses make up 79% in Tiptoe, more than in 99% of UK towns
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2021. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
The share of households in flats trails 97% of UK towns: 1.9%. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
In Tiptoe, 100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% of UK towns
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2021.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Here 6.7% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. 100% of residents have English as their main language.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 93% of UK towns, at 97%
How residents described themselves at the 2021 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 97% of Tiptoe · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.4%), Indian (0.2%) and Chinese (0.2%). At 54%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 77% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. In Tiptoe, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion, beside 37% across England’s towns.
Tiptoe: 65% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 99% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 5 and over), Census 2021.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 5 and over
11 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. At 19%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 99% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. There is little gap on unpaid carers: 8%, about the same as across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 37% of adults in Tiptoe, 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification, against 18%.
A younger town than 2 of the 7 around it: Tiptoe
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiptoe | 460 | — | 59.6 | 37% | 17% |
| Ashley | 7,730 | 1.2 mi | 51.2 | 30% | 23% |
| Sway | 2,437 | 1.5 mi | 55.9 | 36% | 22% |
| New Milton | 11,872 | 1.9 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 20% |
| Hordle | 1,158 | 2 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 25% |
| Barton on Sea | 6,763 | 2.8 mi | 65.3 | 51% | 11% |
| Everton | 1,615 | 3.1 mi | 62.9 | 47% | 17% |
| Brockenhurst | 3,484 | 3.8 mi | 55.1 | 34% | 23% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Hampshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Hampshire (or England), summed the same way as Tiptoe’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. The ONS adds small random changes to Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Tiptoe’s residents
What is the population of Tiptoe?
The 2021 Census counted 460 people in Tiptoe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tiptoe?
The median age was 59.6 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 37% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tiptoe?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 6.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tiptoe?
39% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Tiptoe good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tiptoe’s schools page.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area (TS002, TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS008, TS015, TS017, TS019, TS021, TS029, TS030, TS039, TS044, TS045, TS062, TS067). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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